> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The World's Best Art in 2025 - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/the-worlds-best-art-in-2025/ - Published: 2025-12-19T11:00:16.000Z - Updated: 2025-12-19T11:00:16.000Z - Description: Also: A majority of artists struggle with debt, LACMA workers vote overwhelmingly for a union, and a word about the hilarity of evil. - Author: Hyperallergic - Tags: Daily Newsletter, Newsletter Move over, Smithsonian. The wall labels everyone’s talking about in DC this week are at the White House, where Trump installed derisive plaques about his Democratic predecessors Joe Biden and Barack Obama. They're as grotesque as you might expect, riddled with all-caps smears and untruths. Oh man, someone should really write a book about the Hilarity of Evil™. But who's fighting against this degradation of culture? Who's out there putting themselves and careers on the line? Not many, I'm afraid. But [you have us](https://hyperallergic.com/how-trump-impacted-arts-and-culture-in-2025/), and we do it together with you. To help us sustain our work as the only major art publication not owned by a billionaire or corporation, please [join as a paid member](https://hyperallergic.com/#/portal/account/plans). It's only a few dollars a month, but it goes a long way in keeping us strong and independent. Enjoy today's stories and have a great Friday. —*Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief* --- [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2025/12/image-124.png)](https://hyperallergic.com/the-best-art-shows-around-the-world-in-2025/) Noah Davis, "Painting for My Dad" (2011), oil on canvas (photo by Kerry McFate, courtesy the Estate of Noah Davis and David Zwirner) ### [The Best Art Shows Around the World in 2025](https://hyperallergic.com/the-best-art-shows-around-the-world-in-2025/) Nan Goldin’s fearless Berlin retrospective, a remapping of interwar Paris in Singapore, Noah Davis’s visions of Black life, and a meditation on monuments in LA were just some of our favorites around the world this year. --- SPONSORED [![CTA Image](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2025/12/Hyperallergic_Craft_West-2.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/craft-in-america-returns-for-a-new-season-with-east-and-west/) ****Craft in America returns to PBS for a new season with “EAST” and “WEST.”** The latest episodes of the docuseries explore craft across the US, beginning with stories of artists in the Eastern and Western United States. [Learn more ](https://hyperallergic.com/craft-in-america-returns-for-a-new-season-with-east-and-west/) --- ## News - A whopping 96% of staff at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art [voted in favor of a union](https://hyperallergic.com/lacma-workers-vote-overwhelmingly-to-unionize/), calling for higher pay and “increased transparency.” - A survey among more than 1,000 artists, commissioned by our very own Paddy Johnson, [found that 56% of participants are mired in debt](https://hyperallergic.com/debt-plagues-artists-regardless-of-career-stage-survey-finds/). What's worse, this number climbs to 59% for those with gallery representation and museum shows under their belt. --- SPONSORED [![CTA Image](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2025/12/lsu_gradfacultyshow-1.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/lsu-school-of-art-offers-highest-mfa-stipends-in-the-southern-us/) ****LSU School of Art Offers Highest MFA Stipends in the Southern US** With assistantships funded at $23,000, full tuition waivers, and generous health insurance, Louisiana State University helps students lay the groundwork for a successful lifelong art practice. [Learn more ](https://hyperallergic.com/lsu-school-of-art-offers-highest-mfa-stipends-in-the-southern-us/) --- ## Member Comment Brian Eno on Sarah Rose Sharp's "[Annie Leibovitz Shoots Fifty Shades of Anne Hathaway](https://hyperallergic.com/annie-leibovitz-shoots-fifty-shades-of-anne-hathaway/)": I love these pictures - and mostly for the reasons some of you don't like them. In an age of perfect perfectibility it's interesting when somebody decides not to make all the little adjustments that would turn it into just another perfect picture. I especially like the dynamism that the asymmetry produces. --- SPONSORED [![CTA Image](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2025/12/39.-Virgil-Ortiz--Incubators--2016-3.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/indigenous-glass-art-takes-center-stage-at-the-national-museum-of-the-american-indian/) ****Indigenous glass art takes center stage at the National Museum of the American Indian:** **Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass* celebrates culture, craft, and storytelling. Now on view in New York City. [Learn more ](https://hyperallergic.com/indigenous-glass-art-takes-center-stage-at-the-national-museum-of-the-american-indian/) --- ## Community [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2025/12/image-125.png)](https://hyperallergic.com/art-movements-309/) A rendering of Tuan Andrew Nguyen's commission for the High Line Plinth, “The Light That Shines Through the Universe” (image courtesy the artist and the High Line) ### [Art Movements](https://hyperallergic.com/art-movements-309/) A 27-foot Buddha sculpture is coming to the High Line in New York, replacing Iván Argote’s beloved oversized pigeon. Plus, Upstate Art Weekend is expanding and other industry news. ### [A View from the Easel](https://hyperallergic.com/a-view-from-the-easel-316/) Jess Sossi Romano welcomes us into her home studio in Brooklyn, New York. "I am usually in my studio by 10am with a drink, a snack, and a speaker," she writes. Qiurui Du boasts a neat workspace in Shanghai, China. "Visitors are often shocked by how clean my studio is," he reports. ### [Required Reading](https://hyperallergic.com/required-reading-763/) Did you know about the Icelandic tradition of gifting books during Christmas? Also: Joan Mitchell’s love of literature, garments with passports, and behind the scenes of *Vanity Fair*'s controversial photoshoot of Trump's inner circle. --- ## From the Archive [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2025/12/image-126.png)](https://hyperallergic.com/christmas-cheer-from-a-lean-year-the-1950-holiday-cards-of-langston-hughes/) ### [Christmas Cheer from a Lean Year: The 1950 Holiday Cards of Langston Hughes](https://hyperallergic.com/christmas-cheer-from-a-lean-year-the-1950-holiday-cards-of-langston-hughes/) The Beinecke Library at Yale University is exhibiting Hughes's typewritten 1950 Christmas postcards, along with holiday cards he received from friends. ##